Photographers? Official

[Josh]

I'm not trying to piss in your cheerios. I'm just saying... the mid shin chop happens in a lot of pictures. The one right above it (in thumbnail view) is a better way to frame, imo.

I also dig 0252, but the light wasn't being very helpful that day it seems.

[DumpTruck]

oh i know dude it's cool, I didn't catch that I did that till you pointed it out. I think I was too excited about the old decal empression next to him

The light was rough that day, it was really gray out (Go Ohio!) I tried to fix it up in Photoshop the best I could though

[ElCapichan]

oh i know dude it's cool, I didn't catch that I did that till you pointed it out. I think I was too excited about the old decal empression next to him

The light was rough that day, it was really gray out (Go Ohio!) I tried to fix it up in Photoshop the best I could though

Yeah, you gotta watch chopping off body parts when you have that much of the body showing. Live and learn. Happens plenty to me when shooting concerts, but thats why you shoot several (or at a concert a ton), until you feel you have one you like. The beauty of digital.

Overcast days can be great lighting... except when the sky is the main background. Doesn't even help metering for the subject because then you have a super bright, overexposed background. Cool shots though. Already seeing a big improvement on your composition.

[DumpTruck]

thanks dude means a lot coming from pros

[Dyne]

Pros?

[Josh]

Mind your business, Donna.

[Dyne]

Don't you ever tell me what to do.

[JefmcC]

Couple of macros. The leaf is the same one from the 365 thread, just pp a little more.

I used Noiseware (free community edition) to filter the noise.

[JefmcC]

One of the drawbacks of digital photography is noise introduced to images at higher ISO settings. In particular, point and shoot cameras with tiny image sensors that have too many pixels.

The older Canon G9 (my camera) is a nasty offender at introducing noise at high ISO in low light. I recently started using a program called Noiseware. It does an excellent job of removing noise, without sacrificing much detail.

See the before and after shots below. Both were taken at night, no flash, and through a store front window. No other post processing was done. These are just to show the noise reduction at work. I used the free edition at default settings.

Link:

http://www.imagenomic.com/purchase.aspx?c=1&e=c&d=

[ElCapichan]

You get "noise" with higher ISO film, but for film it is more grainy looking, while in digital, you end up getting colored dots. The upside to digital is that with better sensors and image processors, you can shoot at much higher ISOs and not get noise. Just look at some of the upcoming Cannon and Nikon's that can shoot upwards of 100,000 ISO. Of course shooting at the highest end of these cameras will still have a ton of noise, but it means shooting at 6400 will have far far less noise shooting at the same ISO with a camera that can only do 6400 as it's highest. Of course this large increase in ISO and qualty is mainly in prosumer and pr DSLRs, but the smaller ones are making advances as well.

The only thing about noise removal software that you need to be careful about is desaturation and loss of sharpness. Using too much color noise reduction will cause desaturation, and the overall noise reduction lowers the sharpness. Try to create 2 layers, one with the reduction and one without, so you can then control which areas have the reduction that really need it, while keeping the main subject (if it isn't in dire need of the reduction) sharp and colorful.